Chapter 12 - This person... was... so straight

Zhuang Yanyu looked back and found that his brother had asked him if he was available that night.

Zhuang Yanyu thought for a second, could it be that Ah Xi had something to look for him tonight?

[Zhuang Yanyu: Do you have plans for the evening? 】

【Zhuang Yanyu: If there is, I can go with them another time. 】

Between colleagues and brothers, did he still need to make a choice?

His good brother was of course number 1!

There was originally some discomfort in Wen Chenxi’s eyes, which were covered under his glasses, but when he saw the message sent by Zhuang Yanyu, it slowly dissipated.

He pushed up his glasses, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

It had to be said that when the other party did not hesitate to choose him over others, it made him feel better for no reason.

But Wen Chenxi was not very selfish. And he agreed very much that if one lived in this world and in a certain circle, he must have friends.

Especially as a small employee, Zhuang Yanyu needed friends to support and encourage one another, so that he could maintain a better attitude at work and go further in the workplace.

So after knowing that Zhuang Yanyu would be having dinner with his colleagues, Wen Chenxi deleted what he wanted to say before.

[Wen Chenxi: No. ]

[Wen Chenxi: But there is tomorrow night. ]

[Zhuang Yanyu: What arrangement? ]

[Wen Chenxi: Ji Zhiyuan said he wanted to treat you to dinner, are you going? 】

Zhuang Yanyu was actually not close to Ji Zhiyuan, so the other party invited him to dinner should be because of the fruits last night.

【Zhuang Yanyu: Will you be there? 】

Wen Chenxi laughed again when he saw this sentence and directly sent a voice request. After Zhuang Yanyu picked it up, he asked: “If I’m not here, are you not going to go?

“What would I be doing there if you are not going?”

Wen Chenxi’s voice was obviously cheerful: “I’ll be there.”

“Oh.” Zhuang Yanyu said immediately: “Then I’ll go too.”

Wen Chenxi: “En, then ride in my car, I will be in the underground parking lot waiting for you.”

“Okay.”

After setting a time for tomorrow night, Wen Chenxi started chatting with him.

“Will you go to dinner with your colleagues from the same department tonight?”

“No, one is from the same department, and the other is from the engineering department.”

Wen Chenxi: “You are so familiar with colleagues from the engineering department already?”

Zhuang Yanyu thought for a while. He and Qin Yiyuan were really not familiar at all, so he can only say: “Senior Qin is too enthusiastic.”

Wen Chenxi said: “There is nothing wrong with hanging out with more colleagues.”

Zhuang Yanyu frowned, and said with some doubt: “But my plans will be disrupted.”

Wen Chenxi thought of Zhuang Yanyu’s strange obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the smile in his eyes became bigger: “Are you like that every day?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Like what?”

Wen Chenxi: “Fixing a specific time to eat, setting specific times to do certain things.”

Speaking of this, Zhuang Yanyu wanted to complain, and his tone became very serious: “There is no specific set time, but I woke up today morning 3 minutes and 02 seconds later than yesterday. In order not to affect the rest of my plans, as the meal time must not be reduced, I could only reduce the walking time by 3 minutes and 02 seconds.”

Wen Chenxi: “En? How did you reduce it?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “From my house to the bus station, according to my daily routine, it takes 7 minutes and 11 seconds to walk a distance of 60 centimeters and 0.8 seconds per step. In order to reduce the error of 3 minutes and 02 seconds, I increased my step from 60 centimeters to 72 centimeters per step and each step…”

Before he finished speaking, Zhuang Yanyu caught something keenly, and stopped talking, but asked suspiciously: “Are you laughing?”

Wen Chenxi slightly moved the phone away, tried hard to suppress the smile on his lips, and said in a deep voice, “No, I was drinking water.”

Wen Chenxi didn’t know what was wrong with himself.

Just listening to Zhuang Yanyu’s description, the image of Zhuang Yanyu frowning and counting every minute and second drifted into his mind. Once the timetable did not match, he might have “insufficient energy” like the previous time. After a while, the whole person would look sick.

Just imagining those images made him want to laugh.

Zhuang Yanyu didn’t speak.

Wen Chenxi also knew that this was a lame excuse, and the smart fish¹ would not believe it. He sat up slightly, and said in a low voice, “Are you angry?”

Zhuang Yanyu was not actually angry, he just didn’t understand.

“Not angry.” Zhuang Yanyu asked directly: “Is it strange that I am like this?”

After all, he had no experience in life, and all his understanding of human beings came from the data he found.

Wen Chenxi laughed twice when he said this.

So Zhuang Yanyu tried to analyze, was his behavior very different from normal humans?

Or was his behavior actually very funny? That’s why he made his good brother laugh?

Listening to the uncertainty in the young boy’s confusion in the voice, Wen Chenxi’s voice became serious and firm: “It’s not surprising at all.”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Really?”

Wen Chenxi: “Of course, in the world, there are no two identical leaves on the earth, and so are the people. There are billions of people in the world, and everyone’s appearances, voices, and personalities are all different, this is something unique to each person.”

Zhuang Yanyu heard him(WCX) say that his(ZYY) mind was at ease immediately, it’s fine as long as it’s not weird.

He was worried that he was too different and would be seen through by others.

Wen Chenxi said softly: “Sorry, I apologize to you for what I did just now.”

Zhuang Yanyu: “There’s no need to apologize, I’m happy when you’re happy.”

Wen Chenxi made sure that the other party really didn’t care about it, and sat upright, slowly leaned back, his body a little more relaxed than before.

He whispered: “En, I’m very happy.”

After work in the evening, Zhou Quan took Zhuang Yanyu and Qin Yiyuan to meet and went to the restaurant they chose together.

The restaurant Zhou Quan looked for was a Cantonese restaurant, which was very popular, especially when it was during meal times, and the business was particularly good.

Zhou Quan gave Zhuang Yanyu the menu and asked him to order.

Zhuang Yanyu only ordered one dish, and left the rest to Zhou Quan and Qin Yiyuan.

Seeing that he only ordered one, Qin Yiyuan asked, “Do you not want any others?”

Zhuang Yanyu said, “I usually only eat one dish at home.”

Only ate one dish?

Qin Yiyuan couldn’t help but glance at Zhuang Yanyu again.

Zhuang Yanyu was a little thin, but his thinness was just the right kind of juvenile. He was really good-looking, especially his eyes, which seemed to be filled with stars from the sky.

It’s hard for people not to be tempted.

Qin Yiyuanqing coughed, looked away, and said, “You are too thin, how can one dish be enough? You should eat more in the future? Look at your thin arms and legs. If you do jobs with the project in the future, your body would definitely not be able to stand it.”

Zhuang Yanyu said, “I’m physically fit.”

Qin Yiyuan didn’t argue with him, but instead ordered a few more dishes.

After the dishes were served, the three began to eat.

Then Qin Yiyuan found out.

When he and Zhou Quan were eating.

Zhuang Yanyu — Chew Chew Chew.

After he and Zhou Quan ate one finished a bowl of rice and another half bowl of rice was also eaten.

Zhuang Yanyu — Chew Chew Chew.

Qin Yiyuan had never seen a person who ate so slowly and refinely!

He really couldn’t hold back, and began to pick up vegetables for Zhuang Yanyu with serving chopsticks.

“Xiao Yu, can I call you that? Have a sip of soup first, this soup is delicious.”

“This seaweed stew is also delicious! I’ll help you fill a bowl.”

“I’ve picked out the bones in this sweet and sour fish with the serving chopsticks, would you like to have a taste?”

Zhuang Yanyu chewed and chewed, and when he looked up, he found that the bowls in front of him were piled high.

Zhuang Yanyu: “?”

Zhuang Yanyu swallowed a mouthful of rice and said, “You should eat too, I can’t eat so much.”

Qin Yiyuan continued to pinch him: “We are all eating! Don’t worry! Let’s talk when we can’t eat anymore, right, Zhou Quan?”

Zhou Quan was eating enthusiastically and looked up in a daze when he heard the words, “Yes, yes.”

He continued to bury his head in eating.

Zhuang Yanyu looked at the food piled high in front of him, and then at Qin Yiyuan. It was really hard to refuse, so he ate silently until his belly swelled.

It was also Qin Yiyuan who drove them back home, saying that they were on the way, Zhou Quan was sent first, and Zhuang Yanyu was sent after the ride.

Zhuang Yanyu looked at the time and asked Qin Yiyuan where he lived. After knowing the address of Qin Yiyuan’s house, Zhuang Yanyu asked puzzledly: “This is not on the way, it’s almost half way around City A.”

Qin Yiyuan: “Uh.”

Usually when one said to be on the way, wasn’t it all for a reason to send people?

He didn’t expect Zhuang Yanyu to say it so bluntly that Qin Yiyuan got stuck.

Qin Yiyuan paused for a while, and when he was about to say, ‘I simply want to take you home’, Zhuang Yanyu asked again: “Are you not familiar with the road?”

Qin Yiyuan: “…”

Qin Yiyuan could only say: “Cough, it’s a little unfamiliar.”

Zhuang Yanyu: “En, my analysis is right, thank you.”

Qin Yiyuan: “…”

After thanking Qin Yiyuan, Zhuang Yanyu was about to go home, and politely reminded Qin Yiyuan to drive slowly.

Qin Yiyuan: “Wait!”

Zhuang Yanyu turned around: “Is there anything else?”

Qin Yiyuan: “Can I chat with you when I get home?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “We don’t have any work due.”

Qin Yiyuan: “It’s not about work, it’s talking about hobbies or life.”

Zhuang Yanyu: “?” Why did he(QYY) want to talk to him(ZYY) about this?

Zhuang Yanyu: “Don’t you have a good brother?”

He didn’t have one, but he did.

Those were for chatting with good brothers!

Qin Yiyuan: “Ah??”

Zhuang Yanyu: “You can talk to your good brother.”

Qin Yiyuan: “…”

Zhuang Yanyu: “Good night.”

Qin Yiyuan: “…”

Qin Yiyuan watched Zhuang Yanyu leave, feeling dark in his heart, this man… was… so straight.

As soon as Zhuang Yanyu got home, Wen Chenxi called.

“Are you home?”

Zhuang Yanyu lay motionless on the sofa, his plans were disrupted again, and he was so full, he said wearily, “Just arrived, I’m so full.”

Wen Chenxi was a little surprised, because according to Xiao Yu’s healthy eating habits, it was impossible to be full under normal circumstances.

Wen Chenxi: “Why are you so full?”

Zhuang Yanyu told his brother what happened that night.

Because of his poor condition, he spoke lazily, and his voice sounded a little softer than usual.

But Wen Chenxi on the other end of the phone was getting more and more wronged. Was this Qin Yiyuan interested in his Xiao Yu?

Did Xiao Yu know?

“He kept bringing vegetables and soup for you?”

“En, he kept letting me eat more.”

“He made a special detour to take you home?”

“En, he doesn’t know the way well.”

“He said he wanted to talk to you and chat?”

“Yes.”

Wen Chenxi was silent for a few seconds, “Don’t you find it strange?”

Zhuang Yanyu: “What’s so strange?”

Wen Chenxi was silent for a longer time this time.

A strong straight man’s breath suddenly came to his face.

He suddenly had a bad feeling.

The author has something to say:

PS——

Wen Chenxi: You were not flirting with me?

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Zhuang Yanyu: He wanted to talk about life with me, he was so pitiful, he had no good brothers!

Qin Yiyuan: I did not say anything.

¹- 鱼, fish, word play with the ‘yu’ in Zhuang Yanyu.

Helen XD:

Hmm… have you ever misunderstood someone who you think have a crush on you but they actually didn’t? (⊙o⊙)

~Spoiler~

Xiao Yu wants to be Xiao Xi’s no. 1 good brother… [or should I say in advance that he will become Xiao Xi’s no. 0 good brother in the future?]

(Whoever read this and had dirty thoughts vote ->😍 below ♡)

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